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ITV Studios
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Quibi unveils 50-strong launch slate and promotional offer
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s premium short-form platform Quibi has revealed details of its launch slate and launched…
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ITV & BBC Studios streamer BritBox to launch in Australia
ITV and BBC Studios UK-content streamer BritBox is to launch in Australia later this year….
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BritBox joins ITV’s true crime drama ‘The Pembrokeshire Murders’
ITV and BBC Studios’ North American streamer BritBox has boarded a forthcoming true crime drama…
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SVT orders crime drama ‘Blackwater’ from ‘The Killing’ producer Piv Bernth
The Killing producer Piv Bernth is adapting hit Swedish crime novel Blackwater for broadcaster SVT…
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ITV Studios unveils ‘Romulus’ pre-sales, plus US and Oz drama deals
ITV Studios has announced deals for its European scripted slate, including a number pre-sales for…
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ITV preps for ‘Love Island’ return after host Caroline Flack’s death, aged 40
UK commercial broadcaster ITV is preparing to return Love Island to screens with an episode…
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Deals round-up: ‘Masked Singer’ sells to Russia; AMC adds ‘War Of The Worlds’; Two Rivers lands Scottish order
The Masked Singer lands in Russia Russia’s NTV has picked up hit entertainment format The…
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UK Screenings: ITV Studios’ Ruth Berry
ITV Studios is taking to the UK Screenings stage with an eclectic scripted slate, following…
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ITV Studios unveils scripted deals, sets out Spring drama slate
ITV Studios has struck a US deal for Mammoth Screen’s H.G. Wells adaptation War of…
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Romania’s Antena signs up for local version of ‘Love Island’
Romania has become the 15th territory to order a local version of ITV Studios’ and…
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Exclusive: ITV Studios set to pick up sales rights to Kew Media hit drama ‘Line Of Duty’
ITV Studios (ITVS) is set to pick up distribution rights to Line Of Duty, the…
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Factual round-up: ITVS sells Plimsoll’s ‘Planet Earth’; Docubay’s 1091 deal; Love Nature expands in Russia; Kew’s unscripted sales
ITVS pounces on Plimsoll’s natural history series ITV Studios has picked up international distribution rights…
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ITV Studios replaces 12 Yard MD & co-founder Andy Culpin, who joins Siobhan Greene prodco
ITV Studios-owned 12 Yard, the prodco behind Eggheads and Who Dares Wins, has appointed a…
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Endemol Shine’s Lisa Perrin moves to head up ITV Studios international production
ITV Studios has appointed Endemol Shine Group’s Creative Networks CEO Lisa Perrin as managing director…
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ITV Studios strikes raft of scripted deals in US
US buyers including Hulu, Acorn TV, PBS Distribution and BritBox North America have acquired a…
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ITVS-owned The Garden appoints Channel 4 commissioning editor
ITV Studios-owned UK producer The Garden has appointed Channel 4 commissioning editor Nicola Brown as…
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World Productions founder Tony Garrett dies aged 83
World Productions’ founder Tony Garnett has died at the age of 83. Garnett worked on…
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Twofour hires Natalie McArdle from Electric Ray to oversee development
UK-based producer Twofour has bolstered its new senior creative line-up by appointing Electric Ray’s Natalie…
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BBC, Amazon order Big Talk comedy from Stephen Merchant, Elgin James
BBC One in the UK and Amazon Studios have linked up on a new six-part…
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ITV Studios backs new drama outfit from ‘A Very English Scandal’ EP
A Very English Scandal exec producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins is setting up a new drama label…
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Deals round-up: PBS takes Backshall, visits Vienna; UK, Germany land ‘Secret Song’; APC boards ‘Invisible Line’
PBS explores with Backshall, visits Vienna PBS in the US is preparing to air 10-part…
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MultiStory Media rejigs creative team with promotions for De Moraes, McGough
ITV Studios-backed MultiStory Media has restructured its creative team, with Ana De Moraes promoted to…
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ITV Studios, Love Island help UK broadcaster fight advertising lull
ITV Studios’ shows including Love Island and Snowpiercer are set to boost the revenues of…
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Amazon takes ITV’s ‘Love Island’ to France, orders drama from ‘Narcos’ prodco
Amazon Prime has unveiled four new French shows including a local reboot of ITV reality…
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Armoza Formats strikes Hunan TV development deal, launches ‘Dance Smash’
ITV Studios-owned Armoza Formats has struck a co-development deal with Chinese broadcaster Hunan TV, with…
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Drama propels UK exports to record high of $1.8bn as global SVOD sales surge
UK dramas such as Bodyguard and Killing Eve helped to propel the country’s TV exports…
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MIPCOM 2019: The Big Deals
As MIPCOM closes its doors after another frenetic market, TBI explores some of the big…
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ITV Studios links with Spain’s Atresmedia for ‘Trust Me I’m A Six-Year-Old’
ITV Studios and Spain’s Atresmedia Studios have struck a co-development deal for gameshow format Trust…
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ITV Studios kickstarts major distribution restructure as Talpa’s John de Mol exits
ITV Studios has kickstarted a major restructure of its distribution business that sees the catalogues…
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ITV Studios international boss Maria Kyriacou boards Viacom
ITV Studios’ Maria Kyriacou is joining Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN). The exec – who…